Quotes About Clarity

Mixed metaphors with two source domains that don't make sense together, […] are the structures that most deserve the name 'mixed metaphors'.

The fact that metaphors can sleep and wake is both bad news and good news for speakers and writers who want to avoid mixed metaphors. The bad news is that when a metaphoric word or phrase is sleeping for us, we probably won't notice if we use the word or phrase in ways that are inconsistent with its source-domain meaning.

Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.

I attempt to process the myriad thoughts her comment provokes, but they all collide in my head and are now lying prone like the Three Stooges after a pratfall.

But mostly it's because my head's too full. So I have to keep thinking until it's empty, and then I can go to sleep.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Jumping to conclusions is often the only exercise some people get, and is always easier than finding the patience to discover the truth.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle.

Choosing is hard, but not choosing is, in my view, much more debilitating. Sitting in limbo – not fully in your marriage and not out of it, looking at piles of pictures sitting on the floor rather than displaying them on a wall, letting time pass in a job you don't love but are reluctant to leave – and the non-choices are what will eat away at you.

Choosing is about assessing what has the best chance of achieving your goal based on some combination of what you know and what's unclear. Knowing yourself – your goals, your values, your needs – is a level of self-awareness that creates the most solid foundation possible for making choices.

Näytä minulle kuvia, sanoja en enää ymmärrä.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

We must all continuously recapture ourselves from indecision.

Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.

Sometimes, where there's smoke, there's only smoke.)

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Soldiers who don't know what they're fighting for know, nevertheless, what they're not fighting for.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.